On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Damien Challet wrote: > The pdf reader (a very nice piece of software) makes it a pain to go to the > next/prev page for two reasons: > > 1) lack of dedicated button. There has been a few posts about that. What > strikes me is that there are two buttons (select and the full screen button) > that have currently exactly the same function: to switch from full screen to > windowed mode and back. So we have one spare button. > > In principle one could use the select button to display the next page (short > click) and the previous one (long click). The Back button might be a better fit for going to the previous page. > However, as suggested previously, FBreader uses nicely the zoom button to go > forward/backward. This is being used for the zoom feature in the pdf reader, > but honestly, how often to do change the zoom while reading a pdf file? Once. > So the best suggestion is to use the select button to pop-up a zoom chooser > and the zoom button to scroll down/go to the next page. > > Finally, when scrolling down (or up) a page with the D-pad, doesn't it make > sense to switch to the next page if one is already a the bottom of a page? Or better yet -- support the "continous" mode that Acrobat Reader and Evince have and show parts of both pages at the same time. Marius Gedminas -- We have an advanced scalable groupware communication environment (email) -- Alan Cox -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20061106/052ff1d1/attachment.pgp
